PTI MPA, supporters try to charge another grid hire in Peshawar
Fazal Elahi told reporters that a residents of his subdivision had commissioned meters and were profitable their bills, though still not being granted electricity. PHOTO: AFP/File
PESHAWAR: For a second uninterrupted day on Saturday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA and parliamentary secretary for sourroundings Fazl Elahi and his voters continued their criticism opposite energy outages in Peshawar and surrounded a 132KV grid hire in a city’s Hazar Khawani area.
Elahi, along with hundreds of protesters, collected during a grid hire to press a Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) to finish hours-long energy cuts.
Holding sticks, a throng attempted to enter by a categorical embankment though a confidence staff managed to close it before they could enter. The protesters afterwards attempted to mangle into a hire to revive energy to their areas, though a complicated fortuitous of military arrived and stopped them.
Led by Elahi, a throng spent Friday night in criticism outward a grid hire and also ate their Sehri dish there as a PTI personality had pronounced they would not leave until electricity supply was restored to his constituency, PK-6.
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Elahi told reporters that a residents of his subdivision had commissioned meters and were profitable bills, though still not being granted electricity.
“Those who are regulating electricity illegally should be treated as per a law though a consumers who are profitable their bills should not be punished for a crime committed by a few,” he added.
On Friday, Elahi and his supporters had stormed a Taj Abad grid hire and forcibly easy supply to several feeders. Pesco has purebred FIRs opposite them, though no movement has been taken so far.
According to Pesco, a check liberation rate for Akhun Abad, Yakatoot and Hazar Khawani feeders is less than 70 per cent since of a Kundas (illegal offshoot connections) there.
However, a residents pronounced a Badhaber grid hire was set adult on their land and during a time of a construction, a supervision had betrothed them that they would not have to compensate bills for domestic use in lapse for permitting it to use their land.
They confirmed that they had now commissioned meters and paid their bills frequently though still humour enlarged outages.
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Pesco orator Shaukat Afzal has urged the provincial supervision to yield confidence to all Pesco installations. Afzal pronounced a supervision still had not taken movement opposite MPAs Fazl Elahi and Arif Yousaf for holding a law into their hands and aggressive grid stations.
“People are being urged to take a law into their hands that will have dangerous consequences,” he said. “The provincial supervision will be obliged for any unfavourable incident.”
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) IGP Salahuddin Mehsud has destined all informal and district military officers to safeguard confidence to all grid stations and other installations of a Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda).
Mehsud pronounced everybody had a right to criticism though no one could be authorised to conflict grid stations, retard roads and repairs open assets. The IGP also destined a military officers to assistance arrange meetings between criticism leaders and Wapda officials.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1420908/pti-mpa-supporters-try-storm-another-grid-station-peshawar/